Initial pulse of Siberian Traps sills as the trigger of the end-Permian mass extinction

Mass extinction events are short-lived and characterized by catastrophic biosphere collapse and subsequent reorganization. Their abrupt nature necessitates a similarly short-lived trigger, and large igneous province magmatism is often implicated. However, large igneous provinces are long-lived compa...

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Main Authors: Burgess, S. D., Muirhead, J. D., Bowring, Samuel A.
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
Format: Article
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2018
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/113600
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9722-469X